Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymeeny (jones), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymeeny (jones)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.26787, -8.91254
- SMR number
- SL011-136----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, wettish pasture, located on a low NW–SE ridge. Raised circular area (22.6m N–S; 19.4m E–W) defined S–NW by remnants of an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m, at W) and elsewhere by a slight scarp. The bank/scarp coincides with a natural break of slope at NW–NE. Outside the bank at S–W there is a shallow fosse (Wth 2-2.5m, at W) with an external bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m, at W), truncated at W by a later field fence on a NW–SE axis. There is a hut site (SL011-136001-) on the E edge of the level interior. Immediately to S of the rath there is a subrectangular enclosure (SL011-136002-).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.